hey guys...new to the site...first post...

i have a 2004 roadster that i'm trying to find a screen for the top cubby hole. are there many screens made that fit that spot & look near factory?

 

Wow i usually cant stand the "Search newb" replies but you havent searched at ALL.

 

yes

 

There are several manufact. that make screens for the upper cubby. Each that I have seen here look factory to me.

 

Yes, I get comments all the time on how stock it looks:

https://my350z.com/forum/audio-and-video/270820-look-what-ups-brought-part-2-a.html

 

been discussed a hundred times
buy a 2003 cubby
most screens will fit (Fahrenheit, Xenarc, Dynamix) etc

Search and ye shall find

 

Some questions you need to answer before doing your project.

1) Do you want video display only?
2) Or, video display plus navigation?
3) Do you want touch-screen support?
4) Do you want NTSC/PAL or RGB?
5) Is your plan installing a car-pc?

Basically, you will swap out your 2004 cubby for a 2003 cubby. Here is a good thread to read as a starting point for your reseach.
https://my350z.com/forum/showthread....ight=farenheit

After reading the above thread, you will want to do a search to see other options. Tell your gf you are busy tonight.

--Spike

 

thanks for the help guys.

i'll be looking to show navigation on my headunit & dvd on the cubby screen. any headunits come to mind that would be a good purchase to achieve this?

 

Depends how much you want to spend on the head unit.

 

I'll actually be posting a thread pretty soon with pics of my install. Screen install is just like the DUKE and PUSH's, but am using a single-din Kenwood KDV-412 dvd/cd player.. great functions on this unit and only paid upwards of $200 on ebay for it! Not the sexiest thing out there, but I actually modded the surrounding bracket from the "whatever" kit I had to keep it looking flush with the interior and get rid of that "bright silver/metallic" bracket they provided (FUGLY!) w/the HU.. otherwise, it looks pretty good IMO. Unit has bluetooth, ipod capability, 4V pre-outs, many, many nice features for $200-$300 and is a high-quality Kenwood product. I might actually be thinking of letting it go, I know, I know.. I only had it for like 2 days! But if interested hit me up on PM. I just want that Navtraffic capability especially with going back and forth to school, but "apparently" you can only get that with the "fancy, shmancy" upper end double-din models that are like $800+ the price of this unit! Contacted XM/Kenwood/Crutchfield, etc, etc and they say this is the case for whatever reason.

The monitor: Kenwood LZ702W touchscreen (~$350 shipped), where I have navi going in, dvd going in, and a rocker switch to go back and forth between the navi/dvd display on the screen. Of course you have to buy the KNA-G510 navi unit (~$350-$375 shipped) which is "directly" compatible with this monitor.

Again, hopefully will find some time to post pics this weekend, but there's a couple of great suggestions, as I think was already mentioned .

 

Takhteh, if you want nav traffic all you need besides an XM subscription and this antenna, the KNA-G510 (nav brain) supports xm and fm traffic. I thought about doing the traffic thing, but I didn't think it was worth the 310 for the antenna:

http://www.abtelectronics.com/script...unner&id=25174

Takhteh, you have the info on the rocker switch? Is it as simple as hooking a switch up to the reverse wire, and telling it to use a specified input when the reverse signal gets grounded? Although I may do it and get an xm subscription and get a cheapish head unit so I can route the screens audio out to the speakers and listen to xm and the navigation voice over the speakers instead of using it's internal speaker.

 

I didnt like the little cubby hole screen, i went a different route. 8.4 inch.
screw the little one.

 

push PM'd you. also, the problem with the navtraffic thing is this: the navtraffic antenna has both navtraffic and XM radio capability. however, based on our setups, and how we have navi going to the lz702w, the XM radio sound will only come from the back of the monitor, as you need to connect the navtraffic receptor to the kna-g510. since the HU i have, kdv-412, is not "directly" compatible with the navi, not much choice... and not really sure how you can "play" with the monitor wires to get sound through the hu..

i think the only solution is to (1) buy a higher end hu or (2) buy both antenna, one for XM radio and one for navtraffic, but connect the XM radio piece directly to the HU. also, i don't know if XM will be able to handle such a setup, i.e., would they charge me double each month for the two antenna? i dunno.. it sucks, but am not sure i'm even going to go this route. navi is good enough for now, i guess

 

I did the 03 conversion, just know that the door is a different color though, a graphite color. It is even possible to switch the doors but that takes a bit of fabrication of little random parts out of stuff laying around the garage (at least that is how I did mine).

I have some pics here of what mine looked like before I switched the door.
http://www.hypersprite.com/auto/tech-z-007/default.asp

It currently looks like this


Chris

 

Yeah, I'm gonna be buying a nicer head unit since having the voice come through the speakers would be nice when I really don't know where I'm going. I just wish there was a way I could play music and have the voice come in over the music, but that would take some doing. Possible, but more work than I would want to do.

 

Here's my (pretty cheap, but very functional) setup:



Farenheit Screen = $80-100
JVC CD/DVD/MP3/WMA/USB, etc. HeadUnit (Don't know model off top of head) = $200-300

Install = the cost of a few screws, some adhesives, and an hour or so of time

Displays video when I want it to, displays CD or MP3 CD info when listening to music, so works for me...

 

im starting up an older thread here but i have an 07 z. do i still need to get an 03 cubby or do the 07 cubbys work. arent the 06 and 07's the same to. just wondering thanks. this is probably just for a
Farenheit Screen.